i have found a couple of links http://www.gzip.org/ has a reference to fixgz and how to compile it. also comes up as having solved it http://www.info-zip.org/board/board.pl?m-1242984565/ not sure if you have tried those or not. On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Eric Cope wrote: > It didn't help. I edited the program (Open Source is awesome!) to count the > \r's and the \n's, there were 10679 missing bytes. I counted 10755 newline > characters. I replaced the first 10679 newlines with \r\n, but it still > couldn't find the directory... "start of central directory not found" > > If the error took place during FTP, then it should be correctable, right? > Any ideas on what other characters are affected by ASCII FTP transfer? > > Thanks, > Eric > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Jason Holtzapple wrote: >> >> On 08/30/2010 06:51 PM, Eric Cope wrote: >> > I transferred a zip file off of an infected Windows machine via FTP. >> > That file was determined to be corrupt (after I wiped the drive of >> > course). I suspect the corruption took place because I transferred the >> > file using ASCII mode, not binary mode. Is there anyway to "repair" a >> > zip file, like search and replacing the "\n" with a "\r\n" or some other >> > tool, Linux based or otherwise? >> >> The fixgz program does exactly that. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss